Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 33752

	Ἥττων, βασιλεῦ, ὀψὲ καὶ ψύχους γίνῃ·
	ὃς διαπαντὸς αἰθριάζειν ἠγάπας·
	σχάζεις δὲ ταχὺ τὴν Βύζαντος βαλβίδα·
	καὶ πτηνὸς ὄρνις αἰετὸς καθὰ μέγας,
	τὰς ἀρετὰς πτέρυγας αὐχῶν καὶ βλέπων
	ἀσκαρδαμύκτως τὸν νοητὸν φωσφόρον,
	φθάνεις διαπτὰς τὴν Σύρων καὶ Κιλίκων·
	κἀκεῖσε καλῶς τὴν καλιὰν πηγνύεις,
	ὁδοῦ πάρεργον, τὰς Πουσγουσίας πόλεις,
	ἃς θριγγὸς ὑγρὸς καὶ λιμνασμὸς ζωννύει,
	ἐπανασώσας τοῖς ὅροις τῶν Αὐσόνων.

Title(s)	Scholium in Nicetae Choniatae historiam (37.72-38.12)
Text source	J. Bértola 2021, Ephraim of Ainos at work: a cycle of epigrams in the margins of Niketas Choniates, Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 114(3), 929-1000: 985
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Critical text
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet Ephraim of Ainos < Thrace (13th c. - 14th c.) - PLP: III.6408
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Ioannes II Komnenos (1087 - 1143) - PBW: Ioannes/2/
Tag(s)	Reference to content of the book Scholium
Translation(s)	Emperor, in the end you are not even able to resist the cold, you, who loved to camp in the open air. You quickly release the start rope from the city of Byzas, and as a big winged eagle bird, boasting your virtues as wings and watching the intelligible light-bearer without blinking, you arrive flying to the regions of Syrians and Cilicians, and there you establish well the nest, as a detour on your way, restoring the cities of Pousgouse, which a lake surrounds and a humid wall, to the boundaries of the Romans. Language English Source(s) J. Bértola 2021, Ephraim of Ainos at work: a cycle of epigrams in the margins of Niketas Choniates, Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 114(3), 929-1000: 985-986 J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 149
Comment	The poem comments on Niketas Choniates' History 37.72-38.12. The epigram also occurs in Par. suppl. gr. 249 (f. 229r), where it does not function as a book epigram.
Bibliography	Primary J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 148-149, 207-209 H. Wolf, 1557, Nicetae Acominati Choniatae, magni logothetae secretorum, inspectoris & iudicis veli, praefecti sacri cubiculi LXXXVI annorum historia, videlicet ab anno restitutae salutis circiter MCXVII, in quo Zonaras desinit, usque ad annum MCCIII, Libris XIX descripta … ex trium codicum laboriosa inter sese collatione, Basel: 19
Number of verses	11
Occurrence(s)	[35282] ἥττων βασιλεῦ ὀψὲ \| (καὶ) ψύχους γίνη [06/03/1555] DILLINGEN AN DER DONAU - Fürstlich und Gräflich Fuggersches Familien- und Stiftungsarchiv 159A [06/03/1555] (p. 26) (11 verses) [35281] ἥττων βασιλεῦ \| ὀψὲ κ(αὶ) ψύχους γί\|νη [16th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1722 [16th c.] (f. 18r) (11 verses) [35278] ἥττων βασιλεῦ ὀψὲ (καὶ) ψύχ(ους) γίνῃ [13th-14th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 168 [13th-14th c.] (f. 18r) (11 verses) [35279] ἥττων βασιλεῦ \| ὀψὲ (καὶ) ψύχους γίνῃ [1301-1350] VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - hist. gr. 53 [1301-1350] (f. 18r) (11 verses) [35280] ἥττων βασιλεῦ ὀψὲ (καὶ) ψύχ(ους) γίνῃ [15th c.] VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - hist. gr. 105 [14th-15th c.] (f. 18r) (11 verses)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Julián Bértola Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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